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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIASA. 



Kg. 49. — Sitfasomus sylviellus. 



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425. Sittasomus amazonus. 



Amazonian Olive Creeper. 



Sittasomus amazonus Lafr. Eev. Zool. 1850, p. 590 (haut Amazone) ; 



Braboume & Clmbb, B. S. Amer. i. p! 249, no. 2530, 1912. 

 Sittasomus olivaceus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 421 (Camacusa, Merum6 



Mts., Eoraima, 3500 ft.); Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 119, 



1890 (Eoraima, Merume Mts.). 



Adult male. Crown of head, nape, upper back, upper wing- 

 coverts, sides of face, throat, breast, abdomen, and sides of body 

 dusky olive-brown ; outer aspect of wings rufous, inner webs of 

 flight-quills dark brown with cinnamon-rufous on the basal 

 portion ; lower back, rump, upper and under wing-coverts, and 



